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Speaker 1: how media covers stories, weird issues or phrases that get

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Speaker 1: repeated over and over again by everybody in politics and

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Speaker 1: notice that there's a word that was rarely used in

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Speaker 1: recent years, affordability, which is being repeated over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Self evident affordability means do people have enough money to

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Speaker 1: and that nation has suddenly maybe this happened a week

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Speaker 1: And I was trying to figure out, like, why suddenly

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Speaker 1: you keep talking about people upset about prices. Prices are high,

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Speaker 1: prices are high, But why are people upset when the

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Speaker 1: Under Biden it was over nine percent. Now it's under

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Speaker 1: What he can help do is lower the rate of inflation.

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Speaker 1: But that's not what he was saying. He said lower prices.

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Speaker 1: And since most people have no sense of history or

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Speaker 1: The Biden years, prices went up accumulatively twenty two percent.

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Speaker 1: And that that's still in everybody's heads, and they never

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Speaker 1: And Gavin Newsom has become the leading candidate by all

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Speaker 1: what has happened to prices in the state of California

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Speaker 1: prices in all fifty states for electricity, gasoline, rent, mortgage.

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Speaker 1: his website, So does itmatter dot com? And it was

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Speaker 1: And you know, John Fleischman wrote about about the inflation

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Speaker 1: version of the affordability argument. You give you give the

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Speaker 1: that it's news. Gas prices highest in the United States, unequivocally. Okay,

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Speaker 1: up after two o'clock Alex Stone from ABC News. You

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Speaker 2: Uppacked Santa Monica City Hall is Carolyn Therosis raises her

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Speaker 1: She lies, can't be trusted and quite possibly as a psychopath.

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Speaker 2: Frustration wowed even coming from residents calling in our new mayor.

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Speaker 1: Had advanced knowledge of the plan to place severely mentorial

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Speaker 1: Council member Trosis, You've known about this project since at

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Speaker 1: Carolyn is a good human being who's genuine, and she's

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Speaker 2: In a statement to Fox eleven, Mayor Turosis says the

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Speaker 1: She's a liar, She's a sticking liar, and she got caught.

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Speaker 1: I've known about the project. Well. A woman named Gina

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Speaker 1: funding application for proposed interim housing sites in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 1: That's what Gribbe wrote to Rosis. When she was a counselman.

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Speaker 1: Our client Leo, who's Stillnikoff, owns a couple of former

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Speaker 1: more information about the projects, that would be appreciated. So

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Speaker 1: she knew it was coming. This all happened quietly. Nobody

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Speaker 1: And then it leaked, and holy hell broke loose, and

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Speaker 1: then she denied no one about it. And that's your

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Speaker 1: new mayor of Santa Monica, Caroline Trosis. It is so galling.

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Speaker 1: Of course they did it quietly. Of course they did

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Speaker 1: it secretly because they know nobody in their right mind

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine what that would be like? And everybody

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Speaker 1: has referenced them as severely mentally ill? What else? What

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Speaker 1: else is going on that you don't know?

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from Kiev sixty.

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Speaker 1: Run every day from one until four o'clock and after

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Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app.

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Speaker 1: And in just a few minutes Alex Stone from ABC News. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they are banning social media in Australia for anybody under

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Speaker 1: sixteen years old. Of course kids are trying to get

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Speaker 1: around this because they're not happy about it. Will their

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Speaker 1: addicts they've got there's plenty of adults who walk around,

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Speaker 1: you know, with their with their faces glued to their

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Speaker 1: the children's brains have been obliterated, and it's it's just

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Speaker 1: this is terrible. Uh So, Uh, Australia is going to

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Speaker 1: try this. Other countries want to. We should that social

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Speaker 1: media for people under sixty never should have been invented. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk more about this later. Uh oh, here's another

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Speaker 1: criminal ready for another crook story? What do you know

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Speaker 1: another another elected official. Former Compton City council member Isaac Galvin,

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Speaker 1: pleaded guilty yesterday federal criminal charges for bribing a Baldwins

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Speaker 1: a Baldwin Park City councilman. You got this. He used

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Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to bribing a Baldwin Park councilman. He paid

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Speaker 1: He wants to sell marijuana for a living, and he's

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Speaker 1: bribing a councilman in another town. Galvin ran a consulting service,

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Speaker 1: let's see consulting. He gave bribes to the Baldwin Park

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Speaker 1: council person, Ricardo Pacheco. Ah. He acted as a middleman

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Speaker 1: because one of Galvin's clients wanted a marijuana permit. All right,

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Speaker 1: So Galvin wasn't selling to marijuana. He was brokering the permit.

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Speaker 1: He was given money to a councilman and in Baldwin

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Speaker 1: Park so that Galvin's client could open up some marijuana shot. Wow,

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Speaker 1: is that a business? Is that what consultants do? That's

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Speaker 1: what lobbyists do, so I guess yeah. Galvin pleaded guilty

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Speaker 1: in one count of bribery, one kind of tax evasion

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Speaker 1: he didn't report and within a half million dollars in income.

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Speaker 1: The hell he served on the Compton City council for

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Speaker 1: alm us ten years, and he lost his seat because

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Speaker 1: election fraud. Wow, that's that's a quality guy that they

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, Baldwin Parks started issuing permits if he

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Speaker 1: was soliciting bribes from businesses who wanted marijuana development agreements

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Speaker 1: his position to get the permits approved. Galvin had as

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Speaker 1: a client a diamond bar company, and so Galvin gave

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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars in bribes to Pacheco. The guy who

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Speaker 1: wanted the permit was someone named Yi Chang Buy of Arcadia.

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Speaker 1: The hell's going on, ye Chang Buy. There's so many

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Speaker 1: criminals in government, so many criminals serving in office. When

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Speaker 1: we come back Alex Stone about the idiocy of the

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Speaker 1: social media, they finally woke up in Australia. They're going

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Speaker 1: to try to ban it for people under sixteen uh Milon.

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Speaker 1: He knows that's going to work. We'll talk to Alex next. Hey,

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